http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Arnold & Porter Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135405 A federal judge has declined to allow Wells Fargo Retail Finance — as a secured creditor to certain bankrupt class members — to participate in a multibillion-dollar retailer antitrust settlement with Visa USA Inc. and MasterCard International Inc., saying that the lender was too late in filing its claim. http://www.law360.com/articles/135405 http://www.law360.com/articles/134888 Two proposed actions accusing Applebee’s International Inc. of fraudulently mislabeling the nutritional content of Weight Watchers International Inc. menu items will head back to state court, taking a bite out of the companies' bid to consolidate several similar cases in multidistrict litigation. http://www.law360.com/articles/134888 http://www.law360.com/articles/134987 Bracewell & Giuliani LLP has wooed Joseph Tirone, a project development and project finance attorney, from McGuireWoods LLP to its energy practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/134987 http://www.law360.com/articles/134448 Arnold & Porter LLP has lured a longtime member of the U.S. Office of the Solicitor General to head its appellate and Supreme Court practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/134448 http://www.law360.com/articles/133948 Microsoft Corp. has cut a deal in Digital Reg of Texas LLC’s suit alleging the software giant and other companies have infringed its patent by making and selling digital content that incorporates Digital Rights Management technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/133948 http://www.law360.com/articles/133085 Northrop Grumman Corp. has said it will sell its advisory services business TASC Inc. for $1.65 billion in cash to an investor group led by private equity firms General Atlantic LLC and affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP. http://www.law360.com/articles/133085 http://www.law360.com/articles/132911 AT&T Inc. has completed its $944 million acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp. following conditional approval of the deal by the Federal Communications Commission, which demanded certain divestitures over competition concerns. http://www.law360.com/articles/132911 http://www.law360.com/articles/132290 After negotiating with regulators in four countries, Panasonic Corp. on Wednesday announced its plans to make a tender offer valued at a minimum of $4.5 billion to acquire all shares of its rival Sanyo Electric Co. http://www.law360.com/articles/132290 http://www.law360.com/articles/132183 A federal judge has purged state antitrust and consumer protection claims from a putative class action brought by employee benefit plans accusing GlaxoSmithKline PLC of filing baseless patent suits to delay generic versions of antidepressant Wellbutrin SR. http://www.law360.com/articles/132183 http://www.law360.com/articles/131928 A federal judge has granted a dozen energy companies' request that he review his ruling on the scope of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's jurisdiction related to claims raised by Kansas plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation over an alleged conspiracy to fix wholesale natural gas prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/131928 http://www.law360.com/articles/131683 A group of cable television subscribers is appealing the dismissal of a putative antitrust class action against a slew of major television programmers and cable providers — including NBC Universal Inc. and Comcast Corp. — that alleged the companies bundled programming and overcharged customers. http://www.law360.com/articles/131683 http://www.law360.com/articles/131740 Sunoco Inc., in a bid to get money it says it spent investigating whether its refinery caused an oil plume under Philadelphia, has no right to a waiver of federal sovereign immunity, government lawyers have told a judge in the latest salvo in a long-running contamination case. http://www.law360.com/articles/131740 http://www.law360.com/articles/131143 The U.S. International Trade Commission has refused to take a second look at a recent ruling that prohibits Alcesia SRL and 12 other importers from bringing unlicensed Philip Morris USA-brand cigarettes into the United States. http://www.law360.com/articles/131143 http://www.law360.com/articles/131228 Direct mail marketing products company Advo Inc. and some of its directors and officers have reached a $12.5 million settlement in a securities class action alleging that they issued false and misleading information in relation to a new operating system and a merger with Valassis Communications Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/131228 http://www.law360.com/articles/130919 Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. has agreed to sell parts of several of its battery-making businesses to a Fujitsu Ltd. unit for about 6.4 billion yen ($70.5 million) in order to appease antitrust concerns from international regulators over Sanyo's pending merger with Panasonic Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/130919 http://www.law360.com/articles/128603 The linked-in nature of today's jury pool is making it harder to shield jurors from external information about their case. But it could also give attorneys another arrow in their quiver when things haven't gone so well. http://www.law360.com/articles/128603 http://www.law360.com/articles/129564 A suit that lasted 10 years and accused Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. of complicity in a securities fraud scheme perpetrated by defunct broker-dealer A.R. Baron & Co. has gained new life as the plaintiffs signaled their intent to appeal the dismissal of their case. http://www.law360.com/articles/129564 http://www.law360.com/articles/129400 The plaintiffs in multidistrict legislation that accuses the nation's top banks of bilking consumers with egregious overdraft fees are seeking to add more meat to their allegations. http://www.law360.com/articles/129400 http://www.law360.com/articles/128962 Former ML Direct Inc. shareholders have asked a federal judge to certify a class of more than 2,000 purchasers who lost their investments as a result of an allegedly manipulative scheme operated by Sterling Foster & Co. and Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. more than a decade ago. http://www.law360.com/articles/128962 http://www.law360.com/articles/128957 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has revived a mass tort that accuses dozens of oil and chemical companies of adding to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina through their emissions of greenhouse gases, a decision that comes less than a month after the Second Circuit breathed new life into a similar mass tort. http://www.law360.com/articles/128957